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" You need not use all this art to tell me that you have a mind to leave us. But remember what I tell you : you are going to be undone. And remember also, that though you leave us, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders... "
Prose Life of Strafford - Page 240
by Robert Browning - 1892 - 319 pages
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Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England: For the Last Hundred ...

James Welwood - Great Britain - 1820 - 372 pages
...remember what I tell you, You are going ** to be undone. But remember, that *• though you leave us now, I will never ** leave you while your head is upon your " shoulders." He was as good as his word, for it was Pym that first accused him of High Treason in the House of Commons,...
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The Life and Times of William Laud, D.D., Lord Archbiship of ..., Volume 1

John Parker Lawson - Bishops - 1829 - 634 pages
...him, on a certain occasion, " You are going to be undone, but remember, that though you leave us now, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders." The surprise caused by his elevation was farther increased by his being created a few months afterwards...
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Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Volume 1; Volume 3

Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 518 pages
...this art to tell me, that you are going to be undone : but remember, that though you leave us now, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders." * So saying, Pym bade adieu to the man " whom mutual league, United thoughts and councils, equal hope,...
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The Life of Sir Edward Coke: Lord Chief Justice of England in the ..., Volume 2

Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...going to be undone. Remember also that * Letters and Journals, vol. i, p. 409. though you leave us, I will never leave you, while your head is upon your shoulders."* If such a threat was ever employed by Pym, he certainly realized it ; for he was the chief manager...
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Memoirs of John Selden and Notices of the Political Contest During His Time

George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 398 pages
...but remember what I tell you — you are going to be undone : remember also that though you leave us, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders." He kept his wordt. Lord Clarendon mentions Selden as one of those who were " designed by the House...
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Memoirs of John Selden: And Notices of the Political Contest During His Time

George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 398 pages
...but remember what I tell you — you are going to be undone : remember also that though you leave us, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders." He kept his wordt. Lord Clarendon mentions Selden as one of those who were " designed by the House...
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Sir John Eliot; Thomas Wentworth ...

Statesmen - 1836 - 446 pages
...and inu partial view of Straffford's conduct and character, in the History continued from Mackintosh. horse, under a favourite officer, to attack them in...leave you, while your head is upon your shoulders ! " i That prophetic summons to a more fatal meeting was now at last accomplished ! Strafford had entered...
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 566 pages
...preferments, and so prevented the evil counsels which had used to spring from thence." latter said, " You are going to leave us, but I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders." This threat was uttered before Strafford had committed any greater offence than that of abandoning...
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The History of England under the House of Stuart, including the Commonwealth ...

Robert Vaughan - Great Britain - 1840 - 506 pages
...fellow-patriot, he addressedjiim in these long-remembered words : — " You are going to leave vis, but I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders * ! " Wentworth had ruled the north of England about four years, through the medium of the court of...
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The Eclectic Review

1840 - 906 pages
...remember what I tell you, you are going to be undone ; and remember also, that though you leave us now, I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders.' Pym kept his word.' — pp. 62 — 63. Had Went worth not been a traitor, he might have been an Achilles...
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